Churchill River
Sign in to savetributary of Hudson Bay in Canada
Key facts
- Etymology
- Named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
- Native name
- Missinipi ( Cree ) des nëdhë́ ( Chipewyan )
- Country
- Canada
- Provinces
- Saskatchewan Manitoba
- Source
- Churchill Lake
- Location
- Saskatchewan
- Coordinates
- 56°6′22″N 108°14′46″W / 56.10611°N 108.24611°W / 56.10611; -108.24611
- Elevation
- 412 m (1,352 ft)
- Mouth
- Hudson Bay
- Length
- 1,609 km (1,000 mi)
- Basin size
- 281,300 km (108,600 sq mi)
- Average
- 1,200 m /s (42,000 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Whitefish River Reindeer River
- Right
- Beaver River Smoothstone River
- Waterbodies
- Lac Île-à-la-Crosse Pinehouse Lake Black Bear Island Lake Otter Lake Sokatisewin Lake Southern Indian Lake
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Encyclopedic overview
The Churchill River (French: Rivière Churchill) is a major river in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. From the head of the Churchill Lake it is 1,609 kilometres (1,000 mi) long. It was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1685 to 1691. The Cree name for the river is Missinipi, meaning "big waters". The Denesuline name for the river is des nëdhë́, meaning "Great River".
The river is located entirely within the Canadian Shield. The drainage basin includes a number of lakes in Central-East Alberta which flow into a series of lakes in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The main tributary, Beaver River, joins at Lac Île-à-la-Crosse.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Churchill River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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